Robby Klein
Growing up in Canada, Dr. Annabelle didn’t dream of a medical career—she was training to be a basketball player like her hero, Michael Jordan, whose work ethic taught her that she could do anything.
But when she came to the aid of her father who was undergoing cancer treatment, she realized that her mission was to help people. She studied at Vanderbilt University where she completed her Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology with a focus in Cardio-Oncology.
In 2016 her medical training served her well when she was forced to navigate every mother’s worst nightmare: a sick child. Her infant son suffered from unrelenting seizures, up to 200 per day. Unsatisfied with available treatments and unwilling to subject her newborn to toxic medications, Dr. Annabelle began to research CBD as a possible treatment. And when she didn’t find the answers she was looking for; she created her own solution by way of a pure and potent CBD oil with the power to change the course of her son’s life.
“I’m proud of having the courage and taking the initiative to utilize my scientific expertise and step out of the norm in order to create a medicine to save my son’s life,” she says.
“Macario, who had 38 percent of his brain removed at five weeks old, was not developing normally as a baby. We feared he would never walk, talk, eat, and play like other children. I made the decision to replace all of his medications with a simple formula which I created. He is now 4 years old and has beat all odds. He has no developmental deficits and is a thriving, joyful preschooler.”